APA 6th Grade New Ecosystems Review

Plankton are marine drifters — organisms carried along by tides and currents.

What are the four types of deserts?

A quick increase in the amount of algae growing in an area

What type of relationship is mutualism?

What is the edge of the continent that lies under the ocean?

What causes tides?

Where is the Sahara Desert?

When the sun, moon and earth form a right angle resulting in smaller low and high tides

What are the canyons in the ocean formed by convergent plate boundaries?

What is and underwater mountain called

I am an organism that is not native to an area

Deep ocean currents are caused by ___________.

What is an example of Nekton?

What is the process in which deep, cold, and nutrient rich water rises toward the surface of the ocean?

The Gobi Desert is famous for

What is a series of waves caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruptions called?

Where is the Atacama desert?

Where is the Mojave Desert?

What is a microbe?

What is an interaction where one organism hunts and eats another organism?

What process cycles nitrogen through living and non living things?

What is desertification?

What is the term for measurement of water depth in oceans, lakes, and seas?

Water that moves across a surface, often carrying materials with it?

Name a factor that contributes 1/4 of the pollution that creates temperature inversions on the Wastach Front

Living Factors (Producers, Decomposers, Consumers) are classified as

nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth

What is La Nina?

What has the most impact on the tides?

What are rock like underwater structures that look like reefs but are made entirely of millions of microbes?

What are microscopic animals that eat phytoplankton?

What is the open water column of the ocean?

This is the role an organism plays in the ecosystem.

Measures distance east or west of the prime meridian.

Organisms that eat other organisms

What an invasive species that has spread widely, depriving marine life of food and habitat in the Mediterranean?

What is a rain shadow?

The ocean covers how much of the earths surface?

Competition between organisms is when...

What create mid-ocean ridges and sea floor spreading

What is the underwater mountain range formed by divergent plate boundaries?

What are microscopic plants in the ocean that convert sunlight into energy called?

Liquid water evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds; precipitates back to earth in the form of rain, snow

What is an organism that breaks down waste?

What group of marine life are the organisms that live near the sea floor?

What is a place where living and nonliving things are interacting together?

What causes the deflection of wind and water currents to the right in the Northern Hemisphere?

Tiny living things in water that produce their own food, like plants do

What is the bottom of a wave?

The flat ocean bottom is called

What create ocean trenches?

A Pacific Ocean weather event where the surface water rises in temperature every 2-7 years

What create volcanoes, sea mounts and islands?

Deep ocean currents driven by differences in the waters density which is controlled by temperature and salinity

Organisms that create their own food from the sun (plants and algae)

What is the top of the wave?

What is the Gulf Stream?

Measures distance north or south of the equator

Which of the following is an invasive species in Utah?

What group of marine life are able to swim and move independently of ocean currents?

What is the steep drop off between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain

Non-Living Factors (temperature, water, salinity, humidity) are classified as

The ocean holds how much of the world's water?

What is an area of the planet that can be classified by the plant and animal life in it?